Meet my little Grr Arrgh dude, done today (which explains the shiny greased-up-ness of it). He's the logo of Mutant Enemy, Joss Whedon's production company under which Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, Dollhouse and (of course) Dr. Horrible were made. The Whedonverse makes me happy and inspires me and cheers me up when life is being a fishy croissant and it makes me warm inside, and now I'll never be without my source of warmth and joy. :)

Done with Waverly ink at the Bunker in Breda, the Netherlands!

I saw this and said "Grr, Arrgh" before scrolling down. This made me very happy.

How long has it taken? $175-200/hour seems to be the going rate for established artists that I've seen.

The shop my artist is currently at charges 125$ an hour for everyone but the guy who owns it, who charges 225$ an hour (which seems absolutely insane to me, but he does some really incredible work), and the shop he used to work at charged 100$ an hour. A lot of the other shops I've looked at charge 150-175$ an hour, which, honestly, I'm too cheap to pay and there are dozens of cheaper tattoo artists in Seattle, so I'm lucky in that regard.Though, I just follow my artist around whenever he moves.

The place where I went for my tattoo was only $60/hr or $70/hr and the guy who did mine was done in two hours. Speaking of which, I never have posted a picture of it here:(Horrible webcam pic, because I'm horribly lazy)It is a replica of Scandal Savage's Tattoo from The Secret Six.

_________________"I'm in your vagina, lurkin on your garlics!" - paprikapapaya"My vagina won't even come to the table because she's out fighting crime under the name The Pink Boom." - idatetattooedguys

I started tattooing my leg, but the design (Basil Gogos painting of Barnabus Collins) was really hard to tattoo upside down, plus my leg was up in a weird position and was shaking after an hour...and I couldn't get at good angles for shading....blah blah blah.ANYWAYS, that's why it's only half-done

_________________"oh by the way I'm in this band...""Your band sucks."-Rubella

I started tattooing my leg, but the design (Basil Gogos painting of Barnabus Collins) was really hard to tattoo upside down, plus my leg was up in a weird position and was shaking after an hour...and I couldn't get at good angles for shading....blah blah blah.ANYWAYS, that's why it's only half-done

When I was thinking about tattooing 10 or so years ago, I got some help from a couple great tattoo artists, but I ended up doing design and illustration so I shelved my machines. But I still have all my machines, inks and autoclave.

_________________"oh by the way I'm in this band...""Your band sucks."-Rubella

The tree is his penis // it's very exciting // when held up to his mouth // the lights are all lighting // his eyes start a-bulging // in unbridled glee // the tree is his penis // its beauty, effulgent -amandabear

_________________If you spit on my food I will blow your forking head off, you filthy shitdog. - MumblesDon't you know that vegan meat is the gateway drug to chicken addiction? Because GMO and trans-fats. - kaerlighed

Is it bad that I just got a full time job and my first thought it getting another tattoo. It would be logical to work on my backpiece, but I don't get to see it so I really want to get the semi-truck on my leg that I've wanted for a while. Everything I have is very realistic with minimal black and I want this to be an amazing old school red Peterbilt. I'm super excited!